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☆ Kenneth Chesebro, alleged architect of fake electors’ plot, followed Alex Jones around Capitol grounds on January 6th
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski Em Steck Yahya Abou-Ghazala | Andrew Kaczynski | Em Steck | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But a CNN investigation has placed him outside of the Capitol at the same time as his alleged plot to keep Trump in office unraveled inside it. CNN was able to place Chesebro at the protest through publicly available databases with photos and videos from that day. Shroyer, who had previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement in another case saying he would not engage in disorderly conduct on the Capitol grounds, was charged with four misdemeanors. Later, the group, including Chesebro, make their way halfway up the steps of the Capitol Building before heading down. Chesebro follows members of the group as they depart the Capitol grounds close to 3 p.m.Later, Chesebro can be seen walking near the Peace Monument at the front of the Capitol.

Persons: Alex Jones, riling, Jones, Donald Trump’s, Kenneth Chesebro, Chesebro, ”, Jared Holt, Lawrence Tribe, Jim Troupis, Biden, John Eastman, —, “, Infowars –, Owen Shroyer, Shroyer, Ryan Goodman, ” Goodman Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Trump, Institute for Strategic, Harvard, Republican, New York Times, New York University, Department of Defense, Committee, Trump International Hotel Locations: Fulton County , Georgia, Georgia, cryptocurrency, Wisconsin, Washington , DC, DC

☆ Hawaii Wildfire Toll Rises as Maui Residents Assess Damage to Lahaina
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Yemen Oil Tanker: How a Massive Spill Was Averted A team of international experts has completed a mission to transfer more than one million barrels of oil from an abandoned tanker off Yemen’s Red Sea coast. WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explains what was at stake in this high-risk operation. Photo: Yahya Arhab/Zuma Press

Persons: WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen, Yahya Arhab Organizations: Yemen Oil, Zuma Locations: Yemen

☆ ‘It’s Tragically Gone’: Maui Wildfires Destroy Much of Lahaina
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen, Yahya Arhab Organizations: Yemen Oil, Zuma Locations: Yemen

☆ Factbox: Military interventions by West African ECOWAS bloc
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The main regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has imposed sanctions and said it could authorise the use of force as a last resort if soldiers do not restore ousted president Mohammed Bazoum to power. Below are previous ECOWAS military interventions:LIBERIAIn 1990, West African leaders sent a neutral military force to Liberia to intervene in the civil war between the forces of President Samuel Doe and two rebel factions. West African forces were deployed again at the tail end of the brutal 14-year conflict, which finished in 2003. GUINEA-BISSAUIn 1999, ECOWAS sent around 600 ECOMOG troops to preserve a peace deal in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau. In 2004, they were integrated into a U.N. peacekeeping force.

Persons: Abdourahmane Tiani, Balima, Mohammed Bazoum, Samuel Doe, Charles Taylor, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Yahya Jammeh, Adama Barrow, Anait Miridzhanian, Alessandra Prentice, Kevin Liffey Organizations: REUTERS, Economic, West African States, ECOWAS, West, ECOWAS Monitoring, Human Rights Watch, Bissau . Rebels, Islamic, Restore, Thomson Locations: Niger, Niamey, LIBERIA, Liberia, SIERRA LEONE, Nigerian, Sierra, Freetown, GUINEA, BISSAU, Guinea, Bissau, IVORY, Ivory Coast, MALI, Mali, al Qaeda, Central, Northern Mali, Islamic State, Burkina Faso, GAMBIA, Gambia, Senegal

☆ Congress UFO Hearing: Experts Say UAPs Pose Potential National Security Threat
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Yemen Oil Tanker at Risk: An Operation to Avert a Massive Spill A team of international experts has launched an effort to transfer more than one million barrels of oil from an abandoned tanker before it spills off Yemen’s Red Sea coast. WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen explains what’s at stake in this high-risk operation. Photo: Yahya Arhab/Zuma Press

Persons: WSJ’s Sune Rasmussen, what’s, Yahya Arhab Organizations: Yemen Oil, Zuma Locations: Yemen

☆ Iraq to pay $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BAGHDAD, June 10 (Reuters) - Iraq has agreed to pay about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran after receiving a sanctions waiver from the United States, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said. Due to decades of conflict and sanctions, Iraq is dependent on imports from Iran for a lot of its gas needs. However, U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and gas have hampered Iraq's payments for imports, putting it in heavy arrears and leading Iran to retaliate by cutting gas flows regularly. Iran has been unable to access billions of dollars in assets in several countries due to U.S. sanctions. The United States has insisted that oil-rich Iraq, the OPEC group's second-largest producer, moves towards self-sufficiency as a condition for its exemption to import Iranian energy, yet Baghdad has struggled to do so.

Persons: Fuad Hussein, Antony Blinken, Ahmed Al, Sahhaf, Hussein, Yahya Al, Ahmed Rasheed, Amina Ismail, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: U.S, Riyadh Conference, Reuters, Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Commercial Bank of Iraq, United, OPEC, Dubai, Thomson Locations: BAGHDAD, Iraq, Iran, United States, Iraqi, Riyadh, Baghdad

☆ Switzerland indicts former Gambian minister for crimes against humanity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

GENEVA, April 18 (Reuters) - Switzerland's attorney general has filed an indictment against Gambia's former interior minister for crimes against humanity committed under former authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh, it said in a statement on Tuesday. Sonko was interior minister from 2006 to 2016, when he fled to Sweden and from there to Switzerland, where he applied for asylum. It will be the country's second ever crimes against humanity trial. "We hope this will generate momentum and that the trial will put pressure on Equatorial Guinea to eventually extradite Jammeh," he added. Gambia, a tiny West African country of 2.5 million, is still reeling from over two decades under former president Jammeh marked by authoritarianism and alleged abuses.

☆ Indonesia delays 'risky' rematch of game hit by deadly stampede
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

JAKARTA, March 2 (Reuters) - The rematch of an Indonesian soccer game that ended in one of the sport's worst stadium stampedes has been postponed due to the risk of further crowd trouble, police said on Thursday. They could not play in Surabaya because of ongoing stadium upgrades for the Under-20 World Cup in May. Indonesian soccer has long been blighted by problems, including match-fixing scandals and crowd trouble between rival supporters, which has resulted in some matches being played behind closed doors. At another game in Central Java last month, police used tear gas to stop fans from forcibly entering a stadium during a closed-doors derby match. Investigators concluded the main cause of the crush that killed 135 people last year was excessive and indiscriminate use of tear gas, which world governing body FIFA bans as a crowd control measure.

☆ The week in Asian football
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-27 | by ( Michael Church | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

HONG KONG, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Talking points from the week in Asian football:RONALDO'S SAUDI SCORING STREAK CONTINUES WITH HAT-TRICKCristiano Ronaldo's scoring run continued on Saturday as the Portuguese attacker netted all three goals in Al Nassr's 3-0 victory over Damak. The 38-year-old capped the scoring a minute before halftime when he side-footed home after Ayman Yahya cut the ball back towards the penalty spot. The goal was Ronaldo's eighth in five league games since joining Al Nassr after the World Cup. The defeat was the second in a row for new Urawa coach Maciej Skorza and the Pole's team are bottom of the standings. JANKOVIC APPOINTED NEW CHINA COACHSerbian Aleksandar Jankovic has been named coach of the China national team for next year's Asian Cup and the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.

☆ FTX promised students in Africa up to 40% commission for getting their friends to trade on the now-bankrupt crypto exchange
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

FTX recruited students in Africa to get their friends to sign up to trade crypto on its platform, per CNBC. The now-bankrupt crypto exchange promised "brand ambassadors" the chance of up to 40% commission. Meanwhile, FTX told African customers that investing in crypto would protect them from inflation. In August, FTX Africa tweeted that students who signed up as brand ambassadors would get a chance to earn up to 40% commission by inviting their friends to join. Yahya, who promoted the crypto platform at Nigeria's Bayero University, told the outlet: "As an ambassador, you preach using it."

☆ Promoting FTX was their side hustle. Now they’re left to pick up the pieces
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Sophie Kiderlin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Kateryna Onyshchuk | Istock | Getty ImagesThe first time Gabriel Trompiz heard about the FTX student ambassador program was through a LinkedIn message. Trompiz promptly applied through the link he was sent and became an FTX campus ambassador shortly afterward. So you teach them about cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology and most importantly the benefits of using FTX," he told CNBC's Make It. Elsewhere in Nigeria, Imran Yahya was an FTX campus ambassador at Bayero University. I was like, I was part of the people saying FTX was too big to fail Fortunate Atueyi Former FTX Student Ambassador

☆ Gambia foils alleged coup attempt, arrests four soldiers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BANJUL, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Gambian authorities have foiled a military coup attempt and arrested four soldiers plotting to overthrow President Adama Barrow's administration, the government said on Wednesday. The Gambian Armed Forces High Command arrested four soldiers linked to the alleged coup after a military operation on Tuesday, it said in a statement. Jammeh himself seized power in a coup in 1994 and foiled several attempts to overthrow him before he lost an election in late 2016 to Barrow. "Based on intelligence reports... some soldiers of the Gambian army were plotting to overthrow the democratically elected government," the government said on Wednesday. There were no details on whether the coup attempt was linked to the previous regime.

☆ Morocco write World Cup history as they reach semi-finals
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Mark Gleeson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Morocco had already taken the scalps of Belgium and Spain in this tournament but the win over Portugal is of much greater significance. But the supply quickly dried up thereafter as Morocco closed the passing lanes and frustrated the Portuguese attackers. Joao Felix had two more half chances in the first half but Morocco gained in confidence and found a sudden spring in their step, frequently breaking on the counter attack. Bruno Fernandes hit over the top of the crossbar five minutes later as Portugal threw more into attack and Morocco began to sit deeper. Leaving the World Cup always hurts."

Iran’s national men’s soccer team refused to sing the country’s national anthem at the World Cup in Qatar on Monday, in an apparent act of defiance against their government, which has become the target of growing and incendiary protests. The Iranian team has enthusiastically sung the anthem in previous tournaments, including the World Cup in 2018 and the Asian Cup in 2020. Head coach Yahya Golmohammadi of Persepolis FC League during a match between Persepolis FC and Mes Rafsanjan in Tehran, Iran, on Feb. 28. The news came as the continuing protest movement and the security forces’ attempts to quash dissent led to further unrest over the weekend and into Monday. “We expect the security forces to protect people’s lives and property,” he said in a statement.

☆ Iran soccer team silent during national anthem at its first World Cup game
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Patrick Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Iran's national men's soccer team refused to sing the country's national anthem at the World Cup in Qatar on Monday, in an apparent act of defiance against their government, which has become the target of growing and incendiary protests. The Iranian team has enthusiastically sung the anthem in previous tournaments, including the World Cup in 2018 and the Asian Cup in 2020. Nour News, an outlet owned by the Iran's National Security Council, posted infrared footage which it said was from a Ministry of Intelligence drone observing what it called "armed terrorists." "We expect the security forces to protect people's lives and property," he said in a statement. He said he wrote to the Supreme National Security Council asking security forces stationed in the city to "treat the people with dignity and kindness so that the city calms down."

☆ Every World Cup 2022 squad announced: USMNT, Germany, Belgium and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

CNN —‘Tis the season for wall charts and fans gathering around to pick their starting teams for the 2022 Qatar World Cup. “It’s always difficult when a guy helps you get to the World Cup, he scores three goals in World Cup qualifying and isn’t going to be a part of the program. Again, it’s more about who we did add that we felt good about.”All but one of the 26 will be making their World Cup debut at this year’s tournament and, according to the USMNT, it will be the youngest team to qualify for the World Cup. Octavio Passos/Getty Images Europe/Getty ImagesGhanaManager: Otto AddoThe final squad has not been announced yet. READ: Meet Otto Addo, the coach responsible for guiding some of Europe’s brightest young talents (2021)—–PortugalManager: Fernando SantosThe final squad has not been announced yet.

[1/7] People walk on the cracked soil caused by drought on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen, October 20, 2022. Qat can earn three times the revenue of any other crop but the steady cash flow comes at a heavy price. The bitter-tasting plant requires deep-well irrigation and disproportionate use of water, exacerbating Yemen's water scarcity problem. The conflict has destroyed water infrastructure, leaving millions of people without safe water to drink or grow crops. And a qat crop is harvested several times a year, while fruits are harvested only one time per year.

☆ Factbox: Pakistan's history of coups and assassinations
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Pakistan has a history of political coups and unrest. 2007 - Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a gun and bomb attack after holding an election rally in Rawalpindi. He puts Bhutto under house arrest, imposes martial law, suspends the constitution and bans political parties1973 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto elected as prime minister, taking over from General Yahya Khan. 1958 - In Pakistan's first military coup, Governor-General Iskander Mirza enforces martial law with General Ayub Khan as chief martial law administrator. 1951 - Pakistan's first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, after the 1947 partition of India, is shot dead at a political rally in Rawalpindi.

☆ Wendell Pierce, LaTanya Richardson Jackson among honorees set for AAFCA's inaugural Salute to Broadway
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

“Death of a Salesman” actor Wendell Pierce, “The Piano Lesson” director LaTanya Richardson Jackson and “Till” star John Douglas Thompson are among the honorees set for the inaugural Salute to Broadway presented by the African American Film Critics Association. The event is set for Oct. 17 at The Lambs Club in the heart of Midtown’s theater district. “It’s no secret that some of our greatest actors have come from the stage or have tested their chops on it,” said Gil Robertson, co-founder of AAFCA. Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer-winning “Topdog/Underdog” — which starred Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and was directed by Kenny Leon in its first Broadway revival — is slated for the Spotlight Award. The production, which began previews Sept. 19 and opens Oct. 13 at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, makes Richardson Jackson the first woman to direct a Wilson play on the Main Stem.

A picture of Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati is placed on a residential building in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon September 23, 2022. The tragedy has underscored soaring poverty in northern Lebanon, and Tripoli in particular, that is driving ever more people to take desperate measures three years into the country's devastating financial collapse. Tripoli, Lebanon's second city with a population of roughly half a million, was already Lebanon's poorest before the country plummeted into financial crisis, the result of decades of corruption and bad governance overseen by ruling elites. The economic crisis has led poverty to sky-rocket, with 80% of the population of some 6.5 million poor, according to the United Nations. Several other boats attempted the voyage from Lebanon last week: Cyprus rescued 477 people from two vessels that left Lebanon.

Now it bustles with vessels loading up with coal, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine drives a worldwide race for the polluting fuel. The resurgent coal demand, driven by governments trying to wean themselves off Russian energy while keeping a lid on power prices, clashes with climate plans to shift away from the most polluting fossil fuel. Global seaborne thermal coal imports reached 97.8 million tonnes in July, the highest level on record and up more than 9% year-on-year, an analysis from ship broker Braemar shows. The bloc's ban on Russian coal imports has further increased pressure on electricity generators to find alternative sources of the fuel. Russia usually provides about 70% of the EU's thermal coal, according to the Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel, while it typically supplies 40% of the bloc's natural gas.

☆ Bashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria. Occidentul și opoziția au numit scrutinul „o farsă”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-28 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

Bashar al-Assad a fost declarat câștigătorul alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria, în cadrul unui scrutin considerat „o farsă” de criticii săi. În ziua votului, dictatorul sirian a declarat că opinia Occidentului „nu valorează nimic”. Ulterior, președintele parlamentului sirian, Hammouda Sabbagh a anunțat că Assad a câștigat alegerile cu 95,1% dintre voturi, la o prezență de 78,6%. Este o decizie a guvernului, ajutat de Rusia și Iran, pentru a ucide procesul politic. Pe parcursul „domniei” sale, însă, Siria a fost sfâșiată de un război civil care continuă deja de zece ani, după ce Assad a reprimat cu violență proteste pro-democrație în martie 2011.

Persons: Bashar, Assad, Miniștrii, Sabbagh, Abdullah Saloum Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmed Organizations: BBC, Organizației Națiunilor Unite Locations: Siria, Statele, Franța, Germania, Italia, UK, SUA, Mahmoud Ahmed Mari, Idlib, Rusia, Iran

☆ Bashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor din Siria; Occidentul și opoziția au numit alegerile „o farsă”
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-28 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Sursa foto: SANABashar al-Assad, declarat câștigător al alegerilor din Siria; Occidentul și opoziția au numit alegerile „o farsă”Bashar al-Assad a fost declarat câștigătorul alegerilor prezidențiale din Siria, în cadrul unui scrutin considerat „o farsă” de criticii săi. În ziua votului, dictatorul sirian a declarat că opinia Occidentului „nu valorează nimic”. Opoziția siriană din exil a numit scrutinul „o farsă”. Este o decizie a guvernului, ajutat de Rusia și Iran, pentru a ucide procesul politic. Pe parcursul „domniei” sale, însă, Siria a fost sfâșiată de un război civil care continuă deja de zece ani, după ce Assad a reprimat cu violență proteste pro-democrație în martie 2011.

Persons: Assad, Miniștrii, Sabbagh, Abdullah Saloum Abdullah, Mahmoud Ahmed Organizations: Organizației Națiunilor Unite Locations: Siria, Statele, Franța, Germania, Italia, UK, SUA, Mahmoud Ahmed Mari, Idlib, Rusia, Iran

☆ VIDEO/ Două atacuri aeriene israeliene au ucis cel puțin 43 de palestinieni, inclusiv opt copii și au rănit alți 50 de oameni, majoritatea femei și copii
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-17 | by ( Mudrii Elena | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +1 min

Două atacuri aeriene israeliene au ucis cel puțin 43 de palestinieni, inclusiv opt copii și au rănit alți 50 de oameni, dintre care majoritatea femei și copii, duminică, 16 mai, zi în care au fost înregistrate cele mai multe decese în conflictul israeliano-palestinian, care a început acum o săptămână, scrie CNN. Astfel, numărul decedaților în Gaza a crescut la 197, printre care 58 de copii și 34 de femei. Potrivit sursei citate, Israelul a bombardat casa liderului Hamas și a distrus casa unei familii din Gaza, în timp ce Hamas a lansat peste 100 de rachete spre Israel. Forțele de Apărare Israeliene au declarat că au bombardat casa lui Yahya Sinwar, liderul Hamas, iar în urma atacului aerian Sinwar a fost rănit. Forțele aeriene israeliene au declarat pe Twitter că avioanele de luptă au vizat nouă reședințe, care ar aparține unor comandanți de rang înalt Hamas din Gaza.

Persons: CNN, Yahya, Israelul Organizations: de Apărare Israeliene, Israelul, Hamas, Apărare Israeliene Locations: israeliano, palestinian, Gaza, Israel

☆ Cea mai sângeroasă zi de la debutul violențelor israeliano-palestiniene: Peste 43 de oameni au fost uciși în raiduri aeriene
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-17 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

Cel puțin 43 de palestinieni, dintre care 8 copii, au fost uciși și alți 50 au fost răniți duminică, în urma raidurilor israeliene, în cea mai sângeroasă zi de la debutul violențelor pornite în urmă cu o săptămână, potrivit CNN și The Guardian. În același timp, alte două atacuri aeriene israeliene împotriva Gaza au ucis peste 43 de palestinieni, inclusiv 8 copii, iar alți 50 au fost grav răniți. Majoritatea victimele au fost femei și copii, a anunțat Ministerul Sănătății din Palestina. Alți 8 au fost uciși. La fel ca și în alte cazuri, ultimele violențe dintre israelieni și palestinieni au izbucnit pe fondul vechiului conflict teritorial nerezolvat dintre cele două părți.

Persons: Yahya, Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Biden, dezescaladare, Sâmbătă, Joe Biden, Mahmoud, Shaikh Jarrah Organizations: aeriană israeliană, Hamas, CNN, Guardian, Apărare Israeliene, Ministerul Sănătății, Israelului, Securitate, ONU Locations: israeliano, Fâșia Gaza, Israelului, Khan, Gaza, Palestina, Orientul Mijlociu, Israel, israelian, SUA, Mahmoud Abbas, Tel Avivului, Est, Shaikh

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